A new stochastic method of reconstructing porous media |
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Authors: | Xiucai Zhao Jun Yao Yanjing Yi |
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Affiliation: | (1) College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong, P.R. China |
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Abstract: | We present a new stochastic method of reconstructing porous medium from limited morphological information obtained from two-dimensional
micro- images of real porous medium. The method is similar to simulated annealing method in the capability of reconstructing
both isotropic and anisotropic structures of multi-phase but differs from the latter in that voxels for exchange are not selected
completely randomly as their neighborhood will also be checked and this new method is much simpler to implement and program.
We applied it to reconstruct real sandstone utilizing morphological information contained in porosity, two-point probability
function and linear-path function. Good agreement of those references verifies our developed method’s powerful capability.
The existing isolated regions of both pore phase and matrix phase do quite minor harm to their good connectivity. The lattice
Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to compute the permeability of the reconstructed system and the results show its good isotropy
and conductivity. However, due to the disadvantage of this method that the connectivity of the reconstructed system’s pore
space will decrease when porosity becomes small, we suggest the porosity of the system to be reconstructed be no less than
0.2 to ensure its connectivity and conductivity. |
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Keywords: | Porous media Stochastic reconstruction Voxel-selection method Lattice Boltzmann method |
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